The Vanishing (1988) The scariest film I’ve ever seen in my life. What puts it entirely in its own league is its confident insistence upon presenting evil through the lens of banality instead of any flair or style. It presents horror without fantasy, denying us the opportunity to disconne...
The Vanishing Rider (1928) Alias the Deacon (1927) The Rawhide Kid (1928) [Lost] The Call of the Heart (1928) [Lost] That's My Daddy (1927) The Affairs of Hannerl (1927) The Clean-Up Man (1928) [Lost] Finders Keepers (1928) The Shield of Honor (1927) The Phantom Flyer (1928...
‘Vanishing Point’ (1971) ©20thCentFox/Everett Collection There’s all other stoner desert-highway movies, and then there’sVanishing Point.Twilight Zoneveteran Richard C. Sarafian made a midnight movie that could give anyone a contact buzz. Barry Newman is Kowalski, the lone driver, behind...
A candle is a temporal thing, fulfilling its function of radiance and warmth at the cost of its own vanishing. Even so, the fire that consumes it bears Love’s name, and does Love’s work. Whatever is offered up shall receive its true being. Whatever is lost shall be found anew. Fire...
In the instant of the sun’s vanishing in 2017, my first thought was, “Why did it take me so many decades to see this breathtaking phenomenon?” A few minutes later, when the light began to return, I thought, “When’s the next one?” And even if I never see another eclipse, th...
The seamless jump cut editing of the vanishing act and additional use of double exposure to illustrate the giant heads separating and merging were proto-techniques that would go on to be utilized in animation, and are still employed today. While many of Méliès’s films have been lost over ...
Vanishing on 7th Street The Wraith Thriller The Assassin’s Code Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (2009) Caught In The Crossfire The Final Cut H8RZ Juggernaut The Killer Elite Man On A Ledge Meeting Evil Phone Booth Reasonable Doubt The Red Violin Stolen Survivor Trespass (2011) Un...
In retrospect, Puiu’sAurora(2010) appears to be the watershed, the pivot point at which this sometimes tenuous trend evolved into something else entirely. Pushing the style’s component elements—severe realism, long takes, elliptical structuring—to the near vanishing point, this disarmingly preci...
1988 Coming back, I was relieved to find that, during my absence, Museum Ludwig had not stood still and was still committed to engaging with the here and now, as its exhibition series Hier und Jetzt promises to do. Especially reassuring to me was the series’ 2022/23 iteration Anti-...
47. Nicole Horner (Simone Signoret) in Diabolique (1955)Simone Signoret is a torrent of sensuality (Room at the Top 1959, Ship of Fools 1965) Christina Delassalle (Véra Clouzot) plays the wife of a sadistic husband Michel Delassalle (Paul Meurisse) the controlling headmaster at...